It's Bonhoeffer in The Cost of Discipleship who brings up that to use "and who is my neighbor?" as a dodge requires the following things:
- Knowing what the answer to this question is supposed to be (i.e., "everyone, and anyone who needs you")
- Finding this answer unacceptable because of other commitments, either moral ("I would like to not have to love people from group x") or practical ("helping other people when they need it is a lot of work, I'd prefer not to")
- Trying to obfuscate the question intentionally to produce an incoherence (e.g., "shouldn't I love my family more than strangers I'll never meet?")
- Not trying to come to an actual answer (ordo amoris still requires you to love the people at the bottom, after all, and can imagine circumstances in which you're obligated to help them) but literally beg the question, by assuming your intuitive moral order is unimpeachable, or at least serviceable.
...and Jesus' response to that question is a story where it is perfectly clear who did the right thing and who did not; the clearness of it is self-evident, requiring no detailed explanation; and it is meant to shame the person for thinking there could be any other answer. But only if that person is capable of shame.
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